Senior Technical Sourcing Manager
PlayStation
- USA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Manage sourcing activities for hardware, software, and professional services with specialized focus on your area of expertise (e.g. Network, Server/Storage and/or AI)
- Issue and manage purchase orders and supplier material schedules. Improve lead times as needed.
- Supplier engagement: Lead and coordinate all procurement efforts to identify, survey, audit, assess and qualify new suppliers.
- Contract Strategy and Execution: Lead the business negotiation process with external suppliers. Own contract initiation and closure.
- Develop a comprehensive procurement strategy relative to your area of expertise
- Work with internal partners and key suppliers to improve efficiency, tracking and pricing specific to hardware, service, support, and licensing engagements.
- RFx Services: Own and lead the supplier interface for all RFI, RFP and RFQ services. Partner with appropriate internal teams.
- Competitive Benchmarking: Identify key benchmark suppliers in RFx efforts. Partner to identify evaluation criteria and provide relevant data back to internal team.
- SLA Performance: Continuously measure and improve supplier actual performance against mutually agreed SLA.
- Cost Modeling: Ensure best in class pricing and terms are secured for equipment and services. Build should-cost models when appropriate.
- Preferred Suppliers: Identify, qualify, and formalize which suppliers are on FTG's preferred supplier list. Ensure internal partner alignment.
- Supplier Development & Management: Lead business review process to measure, analyze and identify points of strength and weakness with regards to supplier performance. Issue supplier corrective action requests and development plans, as needed.
- Drive continuous improvement of supplier performance (e.g. cost, terms, quality, timely delivery).
- Review supplier roadmaps regularly to ensure alignment with SIE initiatives, drive changes as needed.
- Communicate authoritatively and actively with all partners throughout the project lifecycle.
- Perform market, supplier, and commodity analysis on an ongoing basis.
- Be the sourcing subject matter authority helping to identify and demonstrate best practices in the realms of procurement, supplier management and category management.
- Experience sourcing and subject matter expertise specific to data center infrastructure (e.g. Network, Server/Storage and/or AI)
- BA/BS or equivalent with 10+ years of relevant experience.
- Ability to quickly absorb and apply relevant technical information
- Deep knowledge of relevant markets and experience working with key suppliers therein
- Experience with creation and improvement of business processes and documentation
- Ability to alternate seamlessly between tactical and strategic work
- Proven success in contract negotiation relative to commodities, equipment, and software. Analytical and results focused.
- Prior experience in the cloud industry, computer hardware or related field .